So You Want To Work In Japan?
For the next few months, the newly chosen JETs count-down the last few months until their plane finally departs, while daily other job-seekers scour the forums hoping for some joy. Through interviews with… Read More
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Expat Postcards: The Club
While Where Next Japan’s main focus is travel, and awesome events around Japan, through posts like Expat Postcards: I hope to provide an understanding of what everyday life is like for expats living… Read More
Challengers of Sagicho Festival – our first travel documentary
Sagicho Fire Festival, one of the three most dangerous festivals in Japan. 13 Districts in Omi-Hachiman participate in their annual event, spending months building their huge, heavy floats and then, over one weekend,… Read More
Snowy Shirakawago
Mid-way through spring, though the cherry blossoms have already flown, let’s take a moment to remember the winter that has just passed. Shirakawa is a chilly, though beautiful, nook in the mountains of… Read More
The Change Has Finally Come
Something is different in Japan. The air is warmer, and filled with… pink! Pink everywhere in different shades as first the ume (plum), and then the sakura (cherry) and finally the momo (peach)… Read More
Why I Love Japan: Crashing Random Festivals
The faint chanting of, “washai, washai” tipped me off that somewhere, nearby, a festival was going on. Mid-morning, Sunday, with a house to clean for visitors, a full load of clothes in the… Read More
Remembering Ibaraki
Tomorrow, March 11, 2013, it will be two years since I fled Ibaraki. I never thought I’d miss it this much. I remembering moving in. I had scored the job I wanted, and… Read More
Remembering North Japan: Great View Matsushima Photo Essay
Matsushima ah! A-ah, Matsushima, ah! Matsushima, ah! This famous haiku sums up a poet’s feeling on viewing the islands of Matsushima, clustering thickly by Sendai, in Miyagi prefecture. Before the 2011 triple disaster,… Read More
Remembering North Japan: Nikko Toshogu Shrine
An easy day trip from Tokyo, Nikko Toshogu is where the remains of Tokugawa Iesa, the shogun who unified Japan, lie. His presence is said to protect Tokyo, his constructed capital, from harm,… Read More
Remembering North Japan: Nihon-Ji
Nihon-ji is a complex built on and into the slopes of Mount Nokogiri in Chiba. While most famous for its giant Buddha Daibutsu, it is a worthy hiking destination, with enough stairs to… Read More
